Kian Tajbakhsh
Analysis of Iran, geopolitics, democracy, and the political/economic life of cities
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| Issues | 72 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 2 days ago |
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Trump Did Not Need to Give Iran This Much (Iran Crisis Notebook #22)
The war made sense as pushback. The MOU is harder to explain. [9 min read]
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Cities, Power, and Everyday Order
Most readers here know my work through Iran, geopolitics, and the crisis politics of the Middle East. But before returning to the United States in 2016, after my release as a hostage of the Islamic Republic, I had spent much of my academic...
Three Ways to Read the Iran MOU (Iran Crisis Notebook #21)
Is this a strategic humiliation, a Trump climbdown, or the first sign of a hidden transformation in U.S.-Iran relations? (8 min read)
The reported 14-point U.S.-Iran MOU is difficult to make sense of because it seems to say two contradicto...
Hostage-Taking as Statecraft: From the U.S. Embassy in Tehran to the Hormuz Strait (Iran Crisis Notebook #20, 3 min read)
Trump’s apparent retreat over Hormuz is what pushed me to write this. If the emerging U.S.-Iran arrangement is what it appears to be then this is not simply another episode in nuclear diplomacy. It is the latest proof of an older and darker...
Making Sense of Trump and Iran: Improvisation or Coercion? (Iran Crisis Notebook #19)
Trump’s Iran policy has become almost impossible to read in real time.
On Wednesday evening, June 10, Trump said he was fed up with Iran’s refusal to negotiate seriously. He accused Tehran of stringing the United States along, taking Washi...
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Writer, analyst, and scholar of Iran, geopolitics, democracy, and world order. Author of Creating Local Democracy in Iran (Cambridge 2022). Essays in The Atlantic, WSJ and elsewhere.
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